A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Quotations
Music
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
